[packagekit] inclusion of "social software" functionalities?
Roberto -MadBob- Guido
bob4mail at gmail.com
Sun May 10 07:24:59 PDT 2009
Do someone ever discussed possible inclusion of "social software"
functionalities in PackageKit?
In particular contexts (the popular Ubuntu packaging system, Entropy by
Sabayon...) already has been included functions such as sharing of rating
votes and comments about installed packages, accessible directly into the
package manager by other users wanting to install the same components, and
may be a good idea to formalize access to those addictional informations
since early releases of PackageKit (so to avoid to do it later, with more
effort in converge everything).
Differently from package managers abstraction, handling "social" data access
may be provided by distribution-specific drivers (everyone, Fedora and Debian
and so on, provides its own preferred database of comments and votes on the
web, and implements interface for PackageKit), or on a "source of
information" basis ("That came from KDE-apps.org, that from the Slackware's
users wiki...").
Perhaps "Open Collaboration Services" specification (
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/open-collaboration-services )
may be used as a reference for the definition of the common interface to be
implemented by "distributions/sources drivers".
May this argument be interesting into the PackageKit development?
If the (until now, very superficial) idea likes, I can elaborate a more formal
proposal to be discussed. Waiting for comments.
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Roberto -MadBob- Guido
http://claimid.com/madbob
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